1.
Immediately call or go to your local law enforcement agency (police or sheriff)
and file a missing person report. When a child is missing and believed to
be in danger, there is no 24 hour waiting period in Indiana.

2.
Bring the most recent color photograph of the child, along with the child's
fingerprints, hair sample, blood type, and physical description including a
description of the clothes the child was wearing.

4. Report the child missing to
the toll-free hotline of the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children
(NCMEC) at 1-800-843-5678. The National Center can issue e-mail alerts
about your missing child, distribute posters with your child's photo and
information nationwide, and provide support and other resources for you and your
family.

5. Be alert to a teenager or adult who is
paying an unusual amount of attention to your children or giving them
inappropriate or expensive gifts.

6. Contact other non-profit missing child
organizations and state clearinghouses in adjacent states. Register your
missing child and find out what other search assistance and support services
they can provide.

7. Contact the U.S. State Department's
Passport Office (Office of Citizen Appeals and Legal Assistance, Passport
Services) at (202) 647-0518 in case the suspect tries to apply for a passport to
leave the country with your child.

8. Be sensitive to changes in your
children's behavior; they are a signal that you should sit down and talk to your
children about what caused the changes.

9. Teach your children to trust their own
feelings and assure them that they have the right to say no to what they sense
is wrong.